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I like the way the Rails integration tests currently depend on Mocha.
# integration_test.rb ... begin # rescue LoadError require 'mocha' ... rescue LoadError $stderr.puts "Skipping integration tests. `gem install mocha` and try again." end
In fact, I stole the idea and changed it up a bit for sqldsl.
unless File.directory? File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../vendor/mocha-0.4.0/' raise "mocha 4.0 is required to run the test suite. create the 'vendor' directory as a sibling of test and 'gem unpack mocha' in 'vendor'" end $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../vendor/mocha-0.4.0/lib/' require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../vendor/mocha-0.4.0/lib/mocha'
However, now I'm wondering if Rails should depend on, and include Mocha.
I've previously written that I think xUnit frameworks should include Mocks. Since Rails bakes in testing, I believe it should provide you with the full array of testing tools, including Mocks.
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